Google DeepMind is making artificial intelligence a slave to the algorithm | Letters

Google’s role in university artificial intelligence courses alarms Sheila HaymanYour article (Hi-tech brain drain threatens British university research, 2 November) contains one particularly chilling revelation: that Google DeepMind now runs artificial intelligence courses at UCL and Oxford.Having met the DeepMind people in my role with the MIT Media Lab, I know that their definition of “intelligence” is so impoverished that it doesn’t extend beyond the abstract calculati